The 20 Companies With The Most Low-Wage Workershttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-companies-with-the-most-low-wage-workers-2013-2/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:31:39 -0400Walter Hickeyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e36769bedd3311000014IgnatzTue, 19 Feb 2013 15:41:11 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e36769bedd3311000014
[This is not really any way to treat a fellow American, a fellow human, but you seem to want to dehumanize anyone who does not make a certain wage. I guess some people just want to form a society which is merciless and inhumane.]
No, they are just small people who think they can build themselves up by putting other people down.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e301eab8eae660000003ignatzTue, 19 Feb 2013 15:39:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e301eab8eae660000003
[If your pay is not enough you get another job.]
Then who will do the first job? SOMEBODY has to.
By not paying a livable wage for a necessary job you are GUARANTEEING a permanent underclass and GUARANTEEING that some working people must be subsidized by the taxpayers. Or necessary work doesn't get done.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e249eab8ea7060000006ignatzTue, 19 Feb 2013 15:36:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5123e249eab8ea7060000006
So basically, taxpayers pay these workers' salaries so their employers don't have to. While the employers reap all the benefit from their labor. So Wal-Mart, Yum, MacDonald's, et all are the ones being subsidized.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51215188ecad04ef6200000btjSun, 17 Feb 2013 16:54:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51215188ecad04ef6200000b
The food service and retail industries are always the lowest in terms of pay. It should be noted that tipping used to be a benefit for the server/bartender. That is no longer the case. Tips are calculated and taxed for the most part now. These people should be paid minimum wage and above and tips should be voluntary as they were intended. And, benefits should be mandatory for companies that reach a certain size so they don't play games with full and part time workers to avoid it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511ed5d96bb3f75f20000001Janet Palmer WardFri, 15 Feb 2013 19:42:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511ed5d96bb3f75f20000001
Don't like them don't work for them and don't shop there.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511ed1346bb3f7a015000005Janet Palmer WardFri, 15 Feb 2013 19:22:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511ed1346bb3f7a015000005
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct1Moeaa-W8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct1Moeaa-W8</a> notice that the owner takes a bigger hit and raises prices.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511eb24a6bb3f7b259000016Richard CrooksFri, 15 Feb 2013 17:10:18 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511eb24a6bb3f7b259000016
So this is news. Wal China is a slave company along with a lot of others. Go to Kohl's, Penny's, Sears, and see if you can find anything made in this country. And then bitch about unemployment.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511e6d676bb3f7f956000004WilliamFri, 15 Feb 2013 12:16:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511e6d676bb3f7f956000004
The executives at these companies make a ton of money. Surely, they can lose a tiny bit to pay their employees a living wage.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511dc446ecad04282a000007Daniel HolmesFri, 15 Feb 2013 00:14:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511dc446ecad04282a000007
It won't affect the companies. It will affect you. You make the companies pay more. It will trickle down to you paying for their goods and services. The companies won't give up there percentage of monies brought in.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511dc010eab8ea587600001dMaybell hermanThu, 14 Feb 2013 23:56:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511dc010eab8ea587600001d
Why isn't Walgreens part of the top 20 ?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511db80deab8ea3f6e000001MarieThu, 14 Feb 2013 23:22:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511db80deab8ea3f6e000001
I'm not sure where this idea came from that a company was obligated to pay you a livable wage. When you agree to take the job you agree to the rate of pay they offer, they also let you know what it may take to get an increase. If your pay is not enough you get another job. If your education and skills are not enough you do something about that.......As far as I'm concerned working at fast food restaurants and entry level retail is for young people anyway, school kids and young adults with no families to support.!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d8eec69bedd912c000022Ed MargerumThu, 14 Feb 2013 20:27:08 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d8eec69bedd912c000022
The only two on that list that I'd tip at are Dine Equity (Applebee's and IHOP) and Darden (Red Lobster and Olive Garden).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d77766bb3f75808000015graphicstyle7Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:47:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d77766bb3f75808000015
Minimum wage jobs are difficult, unrewarding, and only earn enough to barely scrape by at poverty level.
I know that many of those jobs are held by young people before they start their "real" lives, go to school, get some sort of skill, earn much more money than $9 an hour
But not everyone is capable of going to school and starting a life. Think of all the elderly people you have seen working at Walmart because they simply can't afford to retire. Anyone who looses a job and does not have the finances to start over when they are middle aged, people who were married, had a kid, other parent left, and now they don't have the time/money to go to school to earn more money....etc.
There are many people who are not slackers who have to have these minimum wage jobs or totally go on public assistance. And when that runs out, they are homeless.
It seems to me that some people on here just want to damn the poor. If they work for minimum wage, they are slackers who don't deserve more. If they don't work and are on welfare, they are scum and deserve to be homeless. This is not really any way to treat a fellow American, a fellow human, but you seem to want to dehumanize anyone who does not make a certain wage. I guess some people just want to form a society which is merciless and inhumane.
Sad.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d72a6ecad04fe10000018Carter ComputersThu, 14 Feb 2013 18:26:30 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d72a6ecad04fe10000018
Small business, starting pay is $15 an hour. Hate big businesses that get too greedy !http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d71036bb3f7137c00000cJoe DassaroThu, 14 Feb 2013 18:19:31 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d71036bb3f7137c00000c
I don't think that was the premise of the article. From the article: "In July 2012 the group released a study listing the largest U.S. companies that primarily have low-wage employees."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d70336bb3f74d7e000003Joe DassaroThu, 14 Feb 2013 18:16:03 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d70336bb3f74d7e000003
That book changed my entire perspective on the issue. I bought a few copies and actually asked people to read it. It should be required reading in high schools.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d664a6bb3f7a36800001bRobert ArbuckleThu, 14 Feb 2013 17:33:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511d664a6bb3f7a36800001b
Wal mart I am so suprised they always have the low wage alwayshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/511cd14c6bb3f72b5300000ddjmidwestThu, 14 Feb 2013 06:58:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511cd14c6bb3f72b5300000d
or the fact that 1 in 5 workers in the US are not really employees but 1099 contractors. Perhaps some of the readers should read "Nickel and Dimed" by Barb Ehrenreich.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511cc0f3eab8eabf48000015timachesonThu, 14 Feb 2013 05:48:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511cc0f3eab8eabf48000015
These statistics overlook corporations like Apple which move jobs offshore where they can increase profit margins by paying even lower wages as well as enforcing working conditions that would be unlawful at home in the US.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c4712ecad04655d00001bJill KlausenWed, 13 Feb 2013 21:08:18 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c4712ecad04655d00001b
"Why should any company get the benefit of paying someone an unlivable wage? And I mean any company."
Especially when doing so forces you and me to pick up the slack with our tax dollars in the form of food stamps, Medicaid, low-income housing supplements, the Earned Income Tax Credit, free school lunches, etc.
I didn't hire those people, why should I have to pay a portion of their salaries so the corporate big wigs and shareholders can laugh all the way to the bank on MY dime?
That's just an unconscionable way to do business. It's like mob extortion against taxpayers and I'm sick of it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c464369bedd7f19000004North Dakota Walmarts pay $17/hrWed, 13 Feb 2013 21:04:51 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c464369bedd7f19000004
And while you're at it Obama stop blocking the permits for oil exploration on federal land so people can have higher wages and benefits from the oil services industry and the country can become energy independent.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c4642eab8eac840000011Jill KlausenWed, 13 Feb 2013 21:04:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c4642eab8eac840000011
Yes, the little guys can handle it.
<a href="http://smallbusiness.chron.com/impact-raising-minimum-wage-4938.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://smallbusiness.chron.com/impact-raising-minimum-wage-4938.html</a>
"... a 2004 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute determined ... that small-business growth doubled in states with higher minimum wages for the four-year period after the 1997 minimum wage increase. This finding was echoed by economic researchers in "Minimum Wage Increases and the Business Failure Rate," published in the March 1998 issue of Journal of Economic Issues. Their research found that during a 30-year period, there was no correlation between business failures and increased minimum wage during the two-year period following an increase. The researchers further reiterated the FPI finding that a rise in the minimum wage actually increased small-business activity."
So that concern's allayed. What else?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c455deab8eac740000013North Dakota Walmarts pay $17/hrWed, 13 Feb 2013 21:01:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c455deab8eac740000013
Walmarts in Bismarck North Dakota and surrounding areas pay $17 dollars an hour STARTING WAGE ---and they have a hard time keeping their workers because they find higher paying jobs in the oil services industry.
The oil services industry pays well -- get off the golf course and the beach Obama and sign that Keystone Pipeline permit and quit holding it hostage as repayment to the left-wing Gaia worshipping greens.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c43f56bb3f7824c000001dongateleyWed, 13 Feb 2013 20:55:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c43f56bb3f7824c000001
Hmm, where I live six of the top ten almost exclusively employ Mexican immigrants.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c114c69bedd2e1c00000ashall7070Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:18:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511c114c69bedd2e1c00000a
you're a fine little soldier, Walter
good and obedienthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bf28c6bb3f7202e000028retireabroadWed, 13 Feb 2013 15:07:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bf28c6bb3f7202e000028
All companies that have wide moats. Guess who pays?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bee24eab8ea8404000007hstad6Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:48:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bee24eab8ea8404000007
But you don't get it! John1066 and Walter Hickey don't want facts, they just want to win the narrative. How many articles does this make today Hickey? Still on the fence?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be96decad04fc2f000014tuolieWed, 13 Feb 2013 14:28:45 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be96decad04fc2f000014
Your mistake is believing any of those companies offer a career path. They are low wage jobs for low skilled workers. Teenagers. Living at home with their parents.
Low skilled employment is there to get your foot in the door. Learn skills. Progress. Climb the ladder.
I am sure glad I saw I did not want to be slinging burgers for a lifetime 35 years ago. I'm sorry for you though.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be82569beddb437000001ZenitramWed, 13 Feb 2013 14:23:17 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be82569beddb437000001
This is terribly unrepresentative of the truth. Not all of Wal Mart's 1.4 million workers earns minimum wage. In fact, WalMart's average wage is over $9 an hour.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be2bd69beddf423000036john1066Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be2bd69beddf423000036
Oddly a company can pay less then minimum wage in some cases if the job also gets tips.
Funny how you forgot or did not know that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be26369bedd8e23000012john1066Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:58:43 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be26369bedd8e23000012
"To be honest i don't think anyone is even interested if this 9 dollar an hour uptick will affect the companies you have listed "
You might want to think so more. I'm very interested in these typed of companies and how much they pay their workers.
Why should any company get the benefit of paying someone an unlivable wage? And I mean any company.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be1076bb3f7b811000002Barry Hussy ObeezyWed, 13 Feb 2013 13:52:55 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be1076bb3f7b811000002
Many working for Darden, DinEquity, and Domino's make extra from tips. A fact from which you seemed to not pay attention. I know a waitress from apple-bees who sometimes earns $300 a day from gratuities . Cherry picking should be a crime.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be0a76bb3f7c01100001fdepressionWed, 13 Feb 2013 13:51:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511be0a76bb3f7c01100001f
This graph tells me absolutely nothing .........
When i drive down the street i see business after business that are not these top 20 ....
To be honest i don't think anyone is even interested if this 9 dollar an hour uptick will affect the companies you have listed .......
What the public wants to know is how will the little guys , the businesses you've never heard of and aren't national chains handle it ?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bdf42ecad04c81e000008icyhotWed, 13 Feb 2013 13:45:22 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/511bdf42ecad04c81e000008
Some how statements in the article leave a lot of questions, almost to the point of "whats "Note that there's no hard numbers on how many of these companies workers are making the exact minimum wage. And the column of the US Workforce refers to all of these companies' US workers, not just their workers making a low wage" As a copy and paste comes in handy. I found it it more interesting when I went to the little blue shortcut at the bottom to see how the numbers will derived. Very interesting........the most was how the term "minimum wage" is defined.